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November 3, 2012I think shame is at the root of our current financial crisis and all the problems in our country. Shame affects everyone who holds back the whole truth of who they are because they are afraid of rejection, and that … read more…
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November 2, 2012In June this year, Liam Carson, director of IMRAM asked me to present something in the Irish Language Literature Festival that he organises. His imaginative approach to generating more interest in new writing in Irish leads him to commission collaborations … read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentModul Dance: Structures of Power and Intimacy
October 23, 2012I find it difficult not to pay attention to the meta-choreography in these situations. I feel strongly the presence of the determining structures that we’d like to think are ‘outside’ but which in reality are with us shaping what’s happening.
Economic and political changes in Europe have affected the dancehouses with some losing their funding, thereby changing the network and having an impact on how dance artists operate with in. Danshuis Station Zuid, unfortunately is one of the casualties of cutbacks in support for the arts in Holland. read more…
Cure: Lunch for Café Valise
September 23, 2012In thinking about nourishment, I wanted to use today as a chance to start talking about recovery and to listen to other people’s response to the topic. I wanted to hear what recovery meant to people on a personal level but also on a social, economic and political level. The lunch guests were a mixture of artists and visitors to Biennial who shared very personal experiences of recovery but who also spoke with passion about what recovery means for Liverpool in the week following the report from the Hillsborough Independent Panel exposing “institutional denial followed by institutional deceit” read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentCure: Re-thinking ‘Brand Ireland’
July 27, 2012“One could well imagine Ireland succeeding in ‘positioning’ itself as the society and the economy that first finds light at the end of the post-Washington Consensus tunnel, the first country to pilot and prove a new form of capitalism – more moral, more fair, more balanced, more human.” Simon Anholt on Ireland’s national brand
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Cure: John Waters on rage in Irish culture
July 18, 2012As I think about Cure for next year, John Waters has suggested ‘that what we were calling the “economic crisis” was something far worse: an anthropological calamity arising from a misunderstanding of desire.
Having invested all hopes in the balloon-basket of materialism, (which had recently fallen out of the sky) we had being brought face-to-face with a confusion centred on an inability to define what we want.’ read more…
Olympic Delivery Authority Residency – Neville Gabie, how did it go?
July 11, 2012An article in the Guardian explains some of the challenges that Gabie encountered retaining his artistic autonomy in the ODA residency. It’s inspiring to see what he has achieved, just as it’s important to recognise the challenges that artists face and hopefully offer when they place themselves in contexts such as the Olympic Park development and the political and commercial forces that the Park represents.
Now, how can we make sure dance is recognised as an art form that is an effective medium in such contexts? read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentStarlight: some press photos by Rory Coomey
June 28, 2012 Posted in Blog | Leave a commentE-motional Bodies and Cities: Berlin Love Tour
June 26, 2012Cork and not Dublin is the city in Ireland that I have known longest and whose streets, shops, hospitals and theatres are part of my family history. I was born in Cork, as were my brothers and sisters. Close family have died there. We did our Christmas shopping and bought our ‘good’ clothes there. I saw a Chinese person for the first time in Cork and in recent years have made and performed work there. read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentStarlight: “It didn’t look like your work”
June 17, 2012A number of people who came to see Starlight commented on the fact that it wasn’t like my other work: “in a good way”, was what some added. I understand what they mean and yet am clear about what connects … read more…
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